Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory allocation

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:34:51 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:47:20 -0500 (EST)
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > There seems to be more effect on the data size: adding the "stub_func" field
> > in struct tracepoint adds 8320 bytes of data to my vmlinux. But considering
> > the layout of struct tracepoint:
> > 
> > struct tracepoint {
> >         const char *name;               /* Tracepoint name */
> >         struct static_key key;
> >         struct static_call_key *static_call_key;
> >         void *static_call_tramp;
> >         void *iterator;
> >         int (*regfunc)(void);
> >         void (*unregfunc)(void);
> >         struct tracepoint_func __rcu *funcs;
> >         void *stub_func;
> > };
> > 
> > I would argue that we have many other things to optimize there if we want to
> > shrink the bloat, starting with static keys and system call reg/unregfunc pointers.  
> 
> This is the part that I want to decrease, and yes there's other fish to fry
> in that code, but I really don't want to be adding more.

If it comes down to not trusting calling a stub, I'll still keep the stub
logic in, and just add the following:

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index 0f21617f1a66..d50a1a652d61 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ struct trace_eval_map {
 
 #define TRACEPOINT_DEFAULT_PRIO	10
 
+extern void tp_stub_func(void *data, ...);
+
 extern struct srcu_struct tracepoint_srcu;
 
 extern int
@@ -310,7 +312,8 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepoint_ptr_deref(tracepoint_ptr_t *p)
 		do {							\
 			it_func = (it_func_ptr)->func;			\
 			__data = (it_func_ptr)->data;			\
-			((void(*)(void *, proto))(it_func))(__data, args); \
+			if (likely(it_func != tp_stub_func))		\
+				((void(*)(void *, proto))(it_func))(__data, args); \
 		} while ((++it_func_ptr)->func);			\
 		return 0;						\
 	}								\
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 774b3733cbbe..f3bb0ee478d1 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ struct tp_probes {
 };
 
 /* Called in removal of a func but failed to allocate a new tp_funcs */
-static void tp_stub_func(void)
+void tp_stub_func(void *data, ...)
 {
 	return;
 }


-- Steve